Celebrate a Holy Lent with Canterbury

Ash Wednesday marks the beginning of Lent, a forty day season of preparation for Holy Week and Easter. On Ash Wednesday we recall our mortality by marking our foreheads with ashes. We trace the sign of the cross on our foreheads, saying "Remember you are dust, and to dust you shall return."

Ash Wednesday is our doorway into the season of Lent, a forty day journey of spiritual renewal through which we prepare to enter the mystery of Christ’s passion, death, and resurrection and to be raised to new life, ourselves.

Explore the resources and opportunities, below, to guide you on your Lenten Journey.

Daily Prayer

People in all kinds of religious traditions, including Judaism and Christianity, have been marking time with prayer for almost as long as we’ve divided the day into hours. “Praying the hours,” as it’s called, has always reminded us that God walks with us throughout each day; “praying the hours” is also a way that the community of faith comes together, whether we’re united all in one place or scattered like raindrops.

Daily Prayer for All Seasons, a resource published by the Episcopal Church, offers short seasonal prayer services to help you "pray the hours" wherever you are. For each season, the book offers eight daily invitations for you to pause for a short prayer/meditation break. Each service can be prayed in 3-8 minutes. In addition to the familiar liturgical seasons (Advent, Lent, Easter, etc.), Daily Prayer for All Seasons divides the long Season after Pentecost into two seasons: a Season of Rest, and a Season of Creation.

You can ﻿download a copy of Daily Prayer for All Seasons﻿, buy a bound copy, or pray along with the small group (of regular people of all ages) in the audio recordings, below.